Willingness

Examples

• In the days of ignorance there had been an extraordinary willingness to believe the Catholic priesthood good and wise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There is as much faith in the willingness to work for an unseen future in this world as in another. Plato. The Republic.
• Mr. Gardiner declared his willingness, and Elizabeth was applied to for her approbation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• They have telegraphed his Majesty, and he has signified his willingness to grant us an audience. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There can be no doubt of Mr. Crawford's willingness; but why should not more of us go? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But there is a kind of passivity, willingness to let experiences accumulate and sink in and ripen, which is an essential of development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• With considerable willingness I ate and drankkeeping the _petit p?té_ till the last, as a _bonne bouche_. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Any uniformity of conduct becomes at once an impossible ideal, and the willingness to live and let live assumes high place among the virtues. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The minor parties--Populist, Prohibition, Independence League and Socialist--have shown a much greater willingness to face new problems. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Hence the inclination or willingness in the subjects of a commercial state to lend. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Checked by Alyson